With most of the country facing drought, a record number of would-be water diviners have begun training in the Burgundy village of Pouilloux
So you hold a Y-shaped hazel branch in front of you and walk slowly over where you suspect there may be water. Some diviners favour willow, others use L-shaped rods, or pendulums. When the branch or rods or pendulum dip or twitch or whatever, that’s where to start digging. Divining is also used to search for metal.Diviners claim that the divining rod is physically affected by emanations from underground water .Science says balderdash . There’s precisely zero evidence that divining is effective.
So what’s driving the renewed interest in something that should have been made redundant by reservoirs and pipes and publicly owned water boards ? Climate change, I’m afraid. Those reservoirs are lower than they should be at this time of year. The French government predicts that over half the country will face drought this summer.No, the catastrophic environmental and political implications of the world’s dwindling water supply are central to the very future of the planet and its inhabitants. Water has been called “blue gold”, but that might be overegging the importance of gold.
Maybe it’s not surprising, given looming Armageddon, that folks are looking to divination for answers. Does it ever work? One dairy farmer told Le Figaro a diviner had found a water source under his farm, which would save him a load of money on his water bill.
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